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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Application for authorisation

Article A752-4

…e authorised retail development project to enable an assessment to be made of the project's compliance with the authorisation granted. II. - The table comprises three parts, to be completed by the com…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Traditional herbal medicinal products

Article R5121-107-3

…unity or in another State party to the European Economic Area, as attested by bibliographical evidence or expert reports; thirty-year medical use is established even if the product has not been market…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter I: General obligation to provide pre-contractual information

Article R111-4-5

…ycles referred to in I shall ensure that: 1° From the date on which the first unit of a model is placed on the national market, the availability of the following spare parts: a) Wheels a) Wheels; b) P…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Persons subject to obligations to combat money laundering and terrorist financing

Article L561-2

…ect to the obligations set out in sections 2 to 7 of this chapter: 1° Bodies, institutions and services governed by the provisions of Title I of this Book, including branches of the credit institution…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 2: Provisions specific to Mayotte

Article L441-7

For the application of this book in Mayotte: 1° A The first sentence of the first paragraph of Article L. 412-6 is not applicable to the renewal of the residence permit of a foreigner in a state of po…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter II: Protected works

Article L112-2

…itions with or without words; 6° Cinematographic works and other works consisting of animated sequences of images, with or without sound, collectively referred to as audiovisual works ; 7° Works of dr…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Scope of application

Article L137-1

…urposes of Articles L. 137-2 to L. 137-4, a person who provides an online public communication service whose main purpose, or one of whose main purposes, is to store and give the public access to a la…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter V: Medically assisted procreation with third-party donors

Article 342-12

…gether in the order chosen by them, subject to a limit of one surname for each of them. In the absence of a joint declaration to the civil registrar mentioning the choice of the child's name, the chil…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Checks, verifications and identity records

Article 78-2-1

At the request of the public prosecutor, officers of the judicial police and, on their orders or responsibility, officers of the judicial police and deputy officers of the judicial police mentioned in…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Decisions on public action

Article 367

If the accused is exempted from punishment or acquitted, if he is sentenced to a penalty other than a firm custodial sentence, or if he is sentenced to a firm custodial sentence covered by pre-trial d…

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